fluxbox, black screen after 10 minutes

Seiken · 04-11-2005, 03:57 PM

Running FluxBox (the one that comes with Slack10.1), and after 10 minutes of inactivity my screen goes black. If I move the mouse, it comes back. I'd prefer if it just never went black at all (or maybe set it to 2 hours or something). I have apm disabled in rc.modules, so I don't know what else this could be. Any ideas?

PS: I DO have KDE installed (just qt, arts, libs, base, and network packages), but I don't run it as my wm. I checked kcontrol, but didn't see anything related to this (screensaver is disabled in there). Might I have to install the kdeadmin package (if KDE is the culprit here, I mean)?

Berto · 04-11-2005, 04:02 PM

Run the command "xscreensaver -demo" and take a look at the settings tab.

PS APM doesn't affect your monitor turning off, that's DPMS; which can be disabled in your .xinitrc or .xsession file and putting in the command "xset -dpms" or something (run "man xset" for a full list of options, or "xset -help"

gbonvehi · 04-11-2005, 04:11 PM

That a configuration of the X server. If you want to disable it you've to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
You can find information about this with man xorg.conf and going to the ServerFlags section, it says the default BlankTime it's 10 minutes. I don't know how to disable because the only option is the delay time, but I guess passing 0 should do it.
Take a look at your xorg.conf if you've a Section "ServerFlags" and if you don't create it and make it look like:

Code:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "BlankTime"  "0"
EndSection

You can also set this while X is running with the xset command (see it's man page).

Seiken · 04-11-2005, 04:31 PM

I opened up xscreensaver -demo and it said the screensaver daemon wasn't running. So for now I am going with the xorg.conf option "BlankTime". I'll update you guys with what happens in 10 minutes

kencaz · 04-11-2005, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gbonvehi
That a configuration of the X server. If you want to disable it you've to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
You can find information about this with man xorg.conf and going to the ServerFlags section, it says the default BlankTime it's 10 minutes. I don't know how to disable because the only option is the delay time, but I guess passing 0 should do it.
Take a look at your xorg.conf if you've a Section "ServerFlags" and if you don't create it and make it look like:

Code:

Section "ServerFlags" Option "BlankTime" "0" EndSection

You can also set this while X is running with the xset command (see it's man page).

Curious... Do you think DPMS can be disabled with the false option? Here's my (old), but still working great video setup. Maybe I'll try to add and see if it works.

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corp."
BoardName "RIVA TNT2"
Driver "nv"
Option "DPMS" "false"
EndSection

KC

Seiken · 04-11-2005, 05:03 PM

yeah, so the BlankTime option works. I have it set to 0 for now. Thanks very much.